Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The evidence indicated that , given the nature of continuous speech , a robust system would not make too early a decision , but would allow higher levels to inform the process of identification .
2 No , she would not wander off again , she would go post-haste to England and Alain could get on with his intrigues and his high-powered business .
3 I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’
4 I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters .
5 Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote :
6 Branson was warned by another member of the party that this would not go down well and , sure enough , was told by the butler the following morning that he was no longer welcome .
7 That would not go down well with my constituents or with many people in the south-east of England .
8 was w would not go down very well , i it , it would mean overturning the whole emphasis of policy and it would mean going against So you , A you would have to change your policy , B you would have to force the process .
9 Taylor could risk Platt at Wembley next Wednesday , but the feeling is that doing so would not go down too well with Juventus .
10 This early in the summer most of the hurricane tracks lay well to the south of the Bahamas , but the islands could still be racked by ship-killing tropical storms and , till I was sure of Wavebreaker 's rigging , I would not go too far from safe harbours .
11 Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame .
12 I I would not go out there on to their property without letting them have knowledge that I was coming to their property .
13 Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground .
14 Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose .
15 I would not go so far , but this is a good place to start finding out about unfamiliar topics .
16 Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … .
17 This would not matter very much ( for it would always be possible for individual candidates to prove the expectation wrong ) , if it were not for the fact that whole papers in the final examination , or certain questions on papers , are to be ‘ differentiated ’ .
18 " Then , " said Dandelion , " Frith felt himself in friendship with El-ahrairah , because of his resourcefulness , and because he would not give up even when he thought the fox and the weasel were coming .
19 She would not do very well on any test of strength , stamina , or suppleness .
20 things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that .
21 But after a period of warming up , the computer would not reboot in either soft ( Ctrl/Alt/Del ) or hard ( ‘ big red switch ’ ) mode .
22 But he would not press too vehemently or he would lose the support of the Prince .
23 Lydia knew that , whereas her lingerie was impeccable , her spirit would not stand up well to close inspection in the event of an accident .
24 Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer .
25 ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true .
26 People in Schweinfurt itself who had suffered directly from the bombing were said to be completely demoralized and had declared that they would not hold out much longer in ‘ such nerve-racking days ’ .
27 The PE department sent pupils who turned up with inadequate kit , by contrast , other teachers would not send even obviously disruptive pupils for fear of causing their suspension .
28 ‘ These things would inconvenience speeders as much as humps but would not mean half as much discomfort to passengers and drivers , ’ he said .
29 The success of the Dutch in the West Indian sugar trade in the 1640s showed that this natural monopoly of the colonies ' trade would not last any longer , so English shipbuilders were gratified to find that the Navigation Act would limit the colonial trade to English ships .
30 Now all that was left of the farm was a very thin goat which would not last much longer .
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